Recent Publications (2010 - Present)
Grebe, N.M., Del Giudice, M., Emery Thompson, M., Nickels, N., Ponzi, D., Zilioli, S., Maestripieri, D., & Gangestad, S.W. (2019). Testosterone, cortisol, and status-striving personality features: A review and empirical evaluation of the Dual Hormone hypothesis. Hormones and Behavior, 109, 25-37. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2019.01.006. PubMed PMID: 30685468.
Rosenfield, K.A., Semple, S., Georgiev, A.V., Maestripieri, D., Higham, J.P., & Dubuc, C. (2019). Experimental evidence that female rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) perceive variation in male facial masculinity. Royal Society Open Science, 6(1), 181415. doi: 10.1098/rsos.181415. PubMed PMID: 30800385. PMCID: PMC6366174.
Kim, E., Nickels, N., & Maestripieri, D. (2018). Effects of brief interactions with male experimenters shortly before and during the Trier Social Stress Test on study participants’ testosterone salivary concentrations. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 4: 329. doi: 10.1007/s40750-018-0091-6.
Madrid, J.E., Mandalaywala, T.M., Coyne, S.P., Ahloy-Dallaire, J., Garner, J.P., Barr, C.S., Maestripieri, D., & Parker, K.J. (2018). Adaptive developmental plasticity in rhesus macaques: the serotonin transporter gene interacts with maternal care to affect juvenile social behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 285(1881). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0541. PubMed PMID: 29925616. PMCID: PMC6030517.
Maestripieri, D. (2018). Maternal influences on primate social development. Behavioral Ecology Sociobiology, 72, 130. doi: 10.1007/s00265-018-2547-x.
Marvel-Coen, J., Nickels, N., & Maestripieri, D. (2018). The relationship between morningness–eveningness, psychosocial variables, and cortisol reactivity to stress from a life history perspective. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 12(2), 71-86. doi: 10.1037/ebs0000113.
Scrivner, C., & Maestripieri, D. (2018). Creativity patterns in the production of scientific theories and literary fiction. KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 2(1), 137-154. doi: 10.1086/696984.
Milich, K.M., Georgiev, A.V., Petersen, R.M., Emery Thompson, M., & Maestripieri, D. (2018). Alpha male status and availability of conceptive females are associated with high glucocorticoid concentrations in high-ranking male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) during the mating season. Hormones and Behavior, 97, 5-13. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.09.014. PubMed PMID: 28954215. PMCID: PMC6180231.
Mandalaywala, T.M., Petrullo, L.A., Parker, K.J., Maestripieri, D., & Higham, J.P. (2017). Vigilance for threat accounts for inter-individual variation in physiological responses to adversity in rhesus macaques: A cognition × environment approach. Developmental Psychobiology, 59(8), 1031-1038. doi: 10.1002/dev.21572. PubMed PMID: 29071705. PMCID: PMC5690846.
Henry, A., Sattizahn, J.R., Norman, G.J., Beilock, S.L., & Maestripieri, D. (2017). Performance during competition and competition outcome in relation to testosterone and cortisol among women. Hormones and Behavior, 92, 82-92. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.03.010. PubMed PMID: 28428002.
Maestripieri, D. (2017). Human nature. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 1(1), 85-88. doi: 10.26613/esic.1.1.16.
Ibarra, F., & Maestripieri, D. (2017). Assessing people’s interest in images with violent or disgusting content: A functional-evolutionary analysis. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 3(2), 133-140. doi: 10.1007/s40806-016-0082-4.
Nickels, N., Kubicki, K., & Maestripieri, D. (2017). Sex differences in the effects of psychosocial stress on cooperative and prosocial behavior: evidence for ‘flight-or-fight’ in males and ‘tend-and-befriend’ in females. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 3(2): 171-183. doi: 10.1007/s40750-017-0062-3.
Henry, A., Sattizahn, J.R., Norman, G.J., Beilock, S.L., & Maestripieri, D. (2017). Performance during competition and competition outcome in relation to testosterone and cortisol among women. Hormones and Behavior, 92, 82-92. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.03.010. PubMed PMID: 28428002.
Maestripieri, D., Henry, A., & Nickels, N. (2017). Moving forward with interdisciplinary research on attractiveness-related biases. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e45. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1600090X. PubMed PMID: 28327254.
Maestripieri, D., Henry, A., & Nickels, N. (2017). Explaining financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive people: Interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, social psychology, and evolutionary psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e19. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16000340. PubMed PMID: 27283466.
Petrullo, L.A., Mandalaywala, T.M., Parker, K.J., Maestripieri, D., & Higham, J.P. (2016). Effects of early life adversity on cortisol/salivary alpha-amylase symmetry in free-ranging juvenile rhesus macaques.Hormones and Behavior, 86, 78-84. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2016.05.004. PubMed PMID: 27170429.
Maestripieri, D., & Lilienfeld, S.O. (2016). Using the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) in human and nonhuman primate research.Psychophysiology, 53(3), 367-71. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12552. PubMed PMID: 26877128.
Zilioli, S., Ponzi, D., Henry, A., Kubicki, K., Nickels, N., Wilson, M.C., & Maestripieri, D. (2016). Interest in babies negatively predicts testosterone responses to sexual visual stimuli among heterosexual young men. Psychological Sciences, 27(1), 114-8. doi: 10.1177/0956797615615868. PubMed PMID: 26626441.
Coyne, S., & Maestripieri, D. (2016). Effects of genes and early experience on the development of primate behavior and stress reactivity. In A. Sale (Ed.), Environmental Experience and Plasticity of the Developing Brain (pp. 161-84). New York, NY: Wiley Blackwell.
Traficonte, D.M., & Maestripieri, D. (2015). Parent-offspring conflict. In P. Whelehan & A. Bolin, Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality (pp. 861-1042). New York: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118896877.wbiehs334.
Zilioli, S., Ponzi, D., Henry, A., & Maestripieri, D. (2015). Testosterone, cortisol, and empathy: Evidence for the dual-hormone hypothesis. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 1(4), 421-33. doi: 10.1007/s40750-014-0017-x.
Maestripieri, D., & Georgiev, A. (2015). What cortisol can tell us about the costs of sociality and reproduction among free-ranging rhesus macaque females on Cayo Santiago. American Journal of Primatology, 78(1), 92-105. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22368. PubMed PMID: 25643836. PMCID: PMC4627861.
Maestripieri, D. (2015). Editorial: The evolution of interdisciplinary studies of human behavior, brain, and body. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 1(1), 1-3. doi: 10.1007/s40750-014-0001-5.
Ponzi, D., Henry, A., Kubicki, K., Nickels, N., Wilson, M.C., & Maestripieri, D. (2015). The slow and fast life histories of early birds and night owls: Their future- or present-orientation accounts for their sexually monogamous or promiscuous tendencies. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(2), 117-22. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.09.008.
D. Ponzi, A. Klimczuk, D. Traficonte, Maestripieri, D. (2015). Perceived dominance in young heterosexual couples in relation to sex, context, and frequency of arguing. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 9(1), 43-54. doi: 10.1037/ebs0000031.
D. Ponzi, M. C. Wilson, Maestripieri, D. (2014). Eveningness is associated with higher risk-taking, independent of sex and personality. Psychological Reports, 115(30), 932-47. doi: 10.2466/19.12.PR0.115c28z5. PubMed PMID: 25457099.
Howell, B.R., Grand, A.P., McCormack, K.M., Shi, Y., LaPrarie, J.L., Maestripieri, D., Styner, M.A., Sanchez, M.M. (2014). Early adverse experience increases emotional reactivity in juvenile rhesus macaques: relation to amygdala volume. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(8), 1735-46. doi: 10.1002/dev.21237. PubMed PMID: 25196846. PMCID: PMC4433484.
Mandalaywala, T., Fleener, C., & Maestripieri, D. (2014). Intelligence in nonhuman primates. In S. Goldstein & J. Naglieri (Eds.), Handbook of Intelligence: Evolutionary Theory, Historical Perspective, and Current Concepts (pp. 27-46). Berlin: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1562-0_3.
Mandalaywala, T.M., Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M., Parker, K.J., & Maestripieri, D. (2014). Physiological and behavioural responses to weaning conflict in free-ranging primate infants. Animal Behaviour, 97, 241-7. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.09.016. PubMed PMID: 25431499. PMCID: PMC4242433.
Mandalaywala, T., Parker, K.J., & Maestripieri, D. (2014). Early experience affects the strength of vigilance for threat in rhesus monkey infants. Psychological Science, 25(10), 1893-1902. doi: 10.1177/0956797614544175. PubMed PMID: 25125426. PMCID: PMC4192014.
Maestripieri, D. (2014). Comparative and evolutionary perspectives. In J.F. Leckman, C. Panter-Brick, & R. Salah (Eds.), Pathways to Peace: The Transformative Power of Children and Families Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027984.003.0008.
Steele, H., van IJzendoorn, M., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M., Boyce, W.T., Dozier, M., Fox, N.A., Keller, H., Maestripieri, D., Odhiambo Oburu, P., & Otto, H. (2014). How do events and relationships in childhood set the stage for peace at personal and social levels? In J.F. Leckman, C. Panter-Brick, & R. Salah (Eds.), Pathways to Peace: The Transformative Power of Children and Families Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. doi: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027984.001.0001.
Piffer, D., Ponzi, D., Sapienza, P., Zingales, L., & Maestripieri, D.(2014). Morningness-eveningness and intelligence among high-achieving US students: night owls have higher GMAT scores than early morning types in a top-ranked MBA program. Intelligence, 47, 107-12. doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2014.09.009.
Higham, J.P., & Maestripieri, D. (2014). The costs of reproductive success in male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) on Cayo Santiago. International Journal of Primatology, 35(3), 661-76. doi: 10.1007/s10764-014-9789-x.
Dubuc, C., Winters, S., Allen, W.L., Brent, L.J., Cascio, J., Maestripieri, D., Ruiz-Lambides, A.V., Widdig, A., & Higham, J.P. (2014). Sexually-selected skin colour is heritable and related to fecundity in a non-human primate. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 281(1794), 20141602. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1602. PubMed PMID: 25253459. PMCID: PMC4211451.
Del Giudice, M., Klimczuk, A., Traficonte, D., & Maestripieri, D. (2014). Autistic-like and schizotypal personality traits in a life history perspective: Diametrical associations with impulsivity, sensation-seeking, and sociosexual behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(5), 415-24. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.05.007.
Dubuc, C., Allen, W.L., Maestripieri, D., & Higham, J.P. (2014). Is male rhesus macaque red color ornamentation attractive to females? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 68(7), 1215-24. doi: 10.1007/s00265-014-1732-9. PubMed PMID: 25246728. PMCID: PMC4167843.
Maestripieri, D., Klimczuk, A., Traficonte, D., & Wilson, M.C. (2014). Ethnicity-related variation in sexual promiscuity, relationship status and testosterone levels in men. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 8(2), 96-108. doi: 10.1037/h0099130.
Maestripieri, D., Klimczuk, A.C., Traficonte, D.M., & Wilson, M.C. (2014). A greater decline in female facial attractiveness during middle age reflects women’s loss of reproductive value. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 179. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00179. PubMed PMID: 24592253. PMCID: PMC3938111.
Maestripieri, D. (2014). Night owl women are similar to men in their relationship orientation, risk-taking propensities, and cortisol levels: implications for the adaptive significance and evolution of eveningness. Evolutionary Psychology, 12(1), 130-47. doi: 10.1177/147470491401200111. PubMed PMID: 24566433.
Koch, H., McCormack, K., Sanchez, M.M., & Maestripieri, D. (2014). The development of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in rhesus monkeys: Effects of age, sex, and early experience. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(1), 86-95. doi: 10.1002/dev.21093. PubMed PMID: 23192465. PMCID: PMC4005596.
Howell, B.R., McCormack, K.M., Grand, A.P., Sawyer, N.T., Zhang, X., Maestripieri, D., Hu, X., & Sanchez, M.M. (2013). Brain white matter microstructure alterations in adolescent rhesus monkeys exposed to early life stress: Associations with high cortisol during infancy. Biology of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, 3(1), 21. doi: 10.1186/2045-5380-3-21. PubMed PMID: 24289263. PMCID: PMC3880213.
Maestripieri, D., Klimczuk, A.C., Seneczko, M., Traficonte, D.M., & Wilson, M.C. (2013). Relationship status and relationship instability, but not dominance, predict individual differences in baseline cortisol levels. PLoS One, 8(12), e84003. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084003. PubMed PMID: 24358324. PMCID: PMC3865306.
Dubuc, C., Coyne, S.P., & Maestripieri, D. (2013). Effect of mating activity and dominance rank on male masturbation among free-ranging male rhesus macaques. Ethology, 119(11), 1006-13. doi: 10.1111/eth.12146. PubMed PMID: 24187414. PMCID: PMC3810986.
Higham, J.P., Pfefferle, D., Heistermann, M., Maestripieri, D., & Stevens, M. (2013). Signaling in multiple modalities in male rhesus macaques: sex skin coloration and barks in relation to androgen levels, social status, and mating behavior. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 67(9), 1457-69. doi: 10.1007/s00265-013-1521-x. PubMed PMID: 25013266. PMCID: PMC4084859.
Groothuis, T.T.G., & Maestripieri, D. (2013). Parental influences on offspring personality traits in oviparous and placental vertebrates. In C. Carere & D. Maestripieri (Eds.), Animal Personalities: Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution (pp. 317-52). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Carere, C., & Maestripieri, D. (2013). Animal Personalities: Who Cares and Why? In C. Carere & D. Maestripieri (Eds.), Animal Personalities: Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution (pp. 1-9). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Carere, C., & Maestripieri, D. (Eds.) (2013). Animal Personalities: Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Georgiev, A.V., Klimczuk, A.C., Traficonte, D.M., & Maestripieri, D. (2013). When violence pays: A cost-benefit analysis of aggressive behavior in animals and humans. Evolutionary Psychology, 11(3), 678-99. doi: 10.1177/147470491301100313. PubMed PMID: 23864299. PMCID: PMC3859192.
Maestripieri, D., & Klimczuk, A.C.E. (2013). Prenatal and maternal psychosocial stress in primates: adaptive plasticity or vulnerability to pathology? In G. Laviola & S. Macrì (Eds.), Adaptive and Maladaptive Aspects of Developmental Stress (pp. 45-64). Berlin: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5605-6_3.
Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M., & Maestripieri, D. (2013). The endocrinology of male rhesus macaque social and reproductive status: A test of the challenge and social stress hypotheses. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 67(1), 19-30. doi: 10.1007/s00265-012-1420-6. PubMed PMID: 24634561. PMCID: PMC3950204.
Maestripieri, D. (2012). Comparative primate psychology. In V.S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (pp. 550-5). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Cartmill, E., & Maestripieri, D. (2012). Socio-cognitive specializations of nonhuman primates: evidence from gestural communication. In J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology (pp. 166-93). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Maestripieri, D. (2012). Games Primates Play. An undercover investigation of the evolution and economics of human relationships. New York: Basic Books.
Maestripieri, D., & Hoffman, C.L. (2011). Behavior and social dynamics of rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago. In Q. Wang (Ed.), Bones, Genetics, and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques (pp. 247-62). Berlin: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1046-1_12.
Hoffman, C.L., & Maestripieri, D. (2011). Costs of reproduction among rhesus macaque females on Cayo Santiago. In Q. Wang (Ed.), Bones, Genetics, and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques (pp. 209-26). Berlin: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1046-1_10.
Higham, J.P., Hughes, K.D., Brent, L.J., Dubuc, C., Engelhardt, A., Heistermann, M., Maestriperi, D., Santos, L.R., & Stevens, M. (2011). Familiarity affects assessment of facial signals of female fertility by free-ranging male rhesus macaques. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 278(1723), 3452-8. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0052. PubMed PMID: 21471112. PMCID: PMC3177625.
T. Mandalaywala, J. P. Higham, M. Heistermann, Maestripieri, D. (2011). Infant bystanders modulate the influence of ovarian hormones on female socio-sexual behavior in free-ranging rhesus macaques. Behaviour, 148(9-10), 1137-55. doi: 10.1163/000579511X596606.
Maestripieri, D., & Hoffman, C.L. (2011). Chronic stress, allostatic load, and aging in nonhuman primates. Development & Psychopathology, 23(4), 1187-95. doi: 10.1017/S0954579411000551. PubMed PMID: 22018089. PMCID: PMC3942660.
Hoffman, C.L., Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M., Coe, C.L., Prendergast, B.J., & Maestripieri, D. (2011). Immune function and HPA axis activity in free-ranging rhesus macaques. Physiology & Behavior, 104(3), 507-14. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.05.021. PubMed PMID: 21635909. PMCID: PMC3133459.
Maestripieri, D. (2011). Emotions, stress, and maternal motivation in primates. American Journal of Primatology, 73(6), 516-29. doi: 10.1002/ajp.20882. PubMed PMID: 20872879.
Saltzman, W., & Maestripieri, D. (2011). The neuroendocrinology of primate maternal behavior. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 35(5), 1192-1204. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2010.09.017. PubMed PMID: 20888383. PMCID: PMC3072435.
Parker, K.J., & Maestripieri, D. (2011). Identifying key features of early stressful experiences that produce stress vulnerability and resilience in primates. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35(7), 1466-83. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.09.003. PubMed PMID: 20851145. PMCID: PMC3023826.
Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M., & Maestripieri, D. (2011). The energetics of male-male endurance rivalry in free-ranging rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta. Animal Behaviour, 81(5), 1001-7. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.02.001.
Higham, J.P., Barr, C.S., Hoffman, C.L., Mandalaywala, T.M., Parker, K.J., & Maestripieri, D. (2011). Mu-opioid receptor (OPRM1) variation, oxytocin levels, and maternal attachment in free-ranging rhesus macaques. Behavioral Neuroscience, 152(2), 131-6. doi: 10.1037/a0022695. PubMed PMID: 21463018. PMCID: PMC4018727.
Girard-Buttoz, C., Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M., Wedegärtner, S., Maestripieri, D., & Engelhardt, A. (2011). Urinary C-peptide measurement as a marker of nutritional status in macaques. PLoS ONE, 6(3), e18042. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018042.
Jovanovic, T., & Maestripieri, D. (2010). Effects of early traumatic experience on vocal expression of emotion in young female rhesus macaques. Developmental Psychobiology, 52(8), 794-801, 2010. doi: 10.1002/dev.20475. PubMed PMID: 20607793. PMCID: PMC3859189.
Higham, J.P, & Maestripieri, D. (2010). Revolutionary coalitions in male rhesus macaques. Behaviour, 147(13), 1889-1908. doi: 10.1163/000579510X539709.
Higham, J.P., Vitale, A., Mas-Rivera, A., Ayala, J.E., & Maestripieri, D.(2010). Measuring salivary analytes from free-ranging monkeys. Physiology and Behavior, 101(5), 601-7. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.09.003. PubMed PMID: 20837036. PMCID: PMC3959823.
Maestripieri, D., Baran, N.M., Sapienza, P., & Zingales, L. (2010). Between- and within-sex variation in hormonal responses to psychological stress in a large sample of college students. Stress, 13(5): 413-24, 2010. doi: 10.3109/10253891003681137. PubMed PMID: 20666639.
Hoffman, C.L., Higham, J.P., Mas-Rivera, A., Ayala, J.E., & Maestripieri, D. (2010). Terminal investment and senescence in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) on Cayo Santiago. Behavioral Ecology, 21(5), 972-8. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arq098. PubMed PMID: 22475990. PMCID: PMC2920293.
Parker, K.J., Hoffman, C.L., Hyde, S.A., Cummings, C.S., & Maestripieri, D. (2010). Effects of age on cerebrospinal fluid oxytocin levels in free-living adult female and infant rhesus macaques. Behavioral Neuroscience, 124(4), 428-33. doi: 10.1037/a0019576. PubMed PMID: 20528088. PMCID: PMC3859199.
Hoffman, C.L., Ayala, J.E., Mas-Rivera, A., & Maestripieri, D. (2010). Effects of reproductive condition and dominance rank on cortisol responsiveness to stress in free-ranging female rhesus macaques. American Journal of Primatology, 72(7), 559-65. doi: 10.1002/ajp.20793. PubMed PMID: 20039328. PMCID: PMC4013499.
Maestripieri, D. (2010). Rhesus macaques. In M. Breed & J. Moore (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (pp. 70-4). New York: Academic Press.
Sanchez, M.M., McCormack, K., & Maestripieri, D. (2010). Ethological case study: infant abuse in rhesus monkeys. In C. Worthman, P. Plotsky, D. Schechter, & C. Cummings (Eds.), Formative Experiences. The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology (pp. 224-37). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511711879.018.
Maestripieri, D. (2010). Neurobiology of social behavior. In M. Platt & A. Ghazanfar (Eds.), Primate Neuroethology (pp. 359-84). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sanchez, M.M., McCormack, K., Grand, A.P., Fulks, R., Graff, A., & Maestripieri, D. (2010). Effects of sex and early maternal abuse on adrenocorticotropin hormone and cortisol responses to the corticotropin-releasing hormone challenge during the first 3 years of life in group-living rhesus monkeys. Development & Psychopathology, 22(1), 45-53. doi: 10.1017/S0954579409990253. PubMed PMID: 20102646. PMCID: PMC3954978.
Sapienza, P., Zingales, L., & Maestripieri, D. (2010). Reply to Joel & Tarrasch: On the relationship between testosterone, gender, financial risk aversion, and career choices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(5), E20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0914490107. PMCID: PMC2836708.
Publications in the 2000s
Sapienza, P., Zingales, L., & Maestripieri, D. (2009). Gender differences in financial risk aversion and career choices are affected by testosterone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the United States of America, 106(36), 15268-73. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0907352106. PubMed PMID: 19706398. PMCID: PMC2741240.
Maestripieri, D. (2009). Konrad Z. Lorenz. In R.A. Shweder (Ed.), The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion (pp. 580-1). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
McCormack, K., Newman, T.K., Higley, J.D., Maestripieri, D., & Sanchez, M.M. (2009). Serotonin transporter gene variation, infant abuse, and responsiveness to stress in rhesus macaque mothers and infants. Hormones and Behavior, 55(4), 538-47. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.01.009. PubMed PMID: 19470363. PMCID: PMC3954512.
Mateo, J.M., & Maestripieri, D. (2009). Maternal effects in mammals: Conclusions and future directions. In D. Maestripieri & J.M. Mateo (Eds.), Maternal Effects in Mammals (pp. 322-34). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226501222.003.0014.
Maestripieri, D. (2009). Maternal influences on offspring growth, reproduction, and behavior in primates. In D. Maestripieri & J.M. Mateo (Eds.), Maternal Effects in Mammals (pp. 256-91). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226501222.001.0001.
Maestripieri, D., & Mateo, J.M. (2009). The role of maternal effects in mammalian evolution and adaptation. In D. Maestripieri & J.M. Mateo (Eds.), Maternal Effects in Mammals (pp. 1-9). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. doi: 10.7208/chicago/9780226501222.003.0001.
Maestripieri, D., & Mateo, J.M. (Eds.). (2009). Maternal Effects in Mammals. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Maestripieri, D., Hoffman, C.L., Anderson, G.M., Carter, C.S., & Higley, J.D. (2009). Mother-infant interactions in free-ranging rhesus macaques: Relationships between physiological and behavioral variables. Physiology & Behavior, 96(4-5), 613-9. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.12.016. PubMed PMID: 19150451. PMCID: PMC3955190.
Maestripieri, D. (2009). The contribution of comparative research to the development and testing of life-history models of human attachment and reproductive strategies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(1), 37-8. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X09000193.
Maestripieri, D. (2008). On the use of comparative primate research for understanding human language evolution. Current Anthropology, 49(6), 1066-7. doi: 10.1086/593015.
Hoffman, C.L., Ruiz-Lambides, A.V., Davila, E., Maldonado, E., Gerald, M.S., & Maestripieri, D. (2008). Sex differences in survival costs of reproduction in a promiscuous primate. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62(11), 1711-8. doi: 10.1007/s00265-008-0599-z. PubMed PMID: 23645968. PMCID: PMC3643690.
Carere, C., & Maestripieri, D. (2008). The behavioral repertoire approach in comparative personality research: Inconsistencies between theory and practice. European Journal of Personality, 22(5), 457-9. doi: 10.1002/per.685.
Barr, C.S., Schwandt, M.L., Lindell, S.G., Higley, J.D., Maestripieri, D., Goldman, D., Suomi, S.J., & Heilig, M. (2008). Variation at the mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) influences attachment behavior in infant primates. Proceedings of the National 7Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(13), 5277-81. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710225105. PubMed PMID: 18378897. PMCID: PMC2278187.
Maestripieri, D. (2008). Neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying the intergenerational transmission of maternal behavior and infant abuse in rhesus monkeys. In D. Pfaff, C. Kordon, P. Chanson, & Y. Christen (Eds.), Hormones and Social Behavior (pp. 121-30). Berlin: Springer.
Maestripieri, D. (2008). Biological bases of maternal attachment. In L.S. Liben (Ed.), Current Directions in Developmental Psychology (pp. 37-42). Boston: Pearson.
Maestripieri, D. (2008). The role of the brain serotonergic system in the origin and transmission of adaptive and maladaptive variations in maternal behavior in rhesus macaques. In R. Bridges (Ed.), Neurobiology of the Parental Brain (pp. 163-73). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Maestripieri, D., Hoffman, C.L., Fulks, R., Gerald, M.S. (2008). Plasma cortisol responses to stress in lactating and nonlactating female rhesus macaques. Hormones and Behavior, 53(1), 170-6. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.09.013. PubMed PMID: 17963759. PMCID: PMC3859185.
Maestripieri, D. (2008). Primate behavior and misbehavior in Michael Crichton’s Congo. In K.R. Grazier (Ed.), The Science of Michael Crichton (pp. 59-68). Dallas, TX: BenBella Books.
Riley, E.P., Suryobroto, B., & Maestripieri, D. (2007). Distribution of Macaca ochreata and identification of mixed ochreata-tonkeana groups in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Primate Conservation, 22, 129-33. http://repository.ipb.ac.id/handle/123456789/30126.
Whitham, J.C., Gerald, M.S., & Maestripieri, D. (2007). Intended receivers and functional significance of grunt and girney vocalizations in free-ranging female rhesus macaques. Ethology, 113(9), 862-74. doi: 1796375917963759.
Sanchez, M.M., Alagbe, O., Felger, J.C., Zhang, J., Graff, A.E., Grand, A.P., Maestripieri, D., & Miller, A.H. (2007). Activated p38 MAPK is associated with decreased CSF 5-HIAA and increased maternal rejection during infancy in rhesus monkeys. Molecular Psychiatry, 12(10), 895-7. doi: 10.1038/sj.mp.4002025. PubMed PMID: 17895923.
Maestripieri, D. (2007). Gestural communication in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina, M. arctoides): Use of signals in relation to dominance and social context. In K. Liebal, C. Muller, & S. Pika (Eds.), Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates (pp. 51-66). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/bct.10.06mae.
Waitt, C., Maestripieri, D., & Gerald, M.S. (2007). Effects of parity and age on female attraction to faces of infants and neonates in rhesus macaques. Primates, 48(2), 164-7. doi: 10.1007/s10329-006-0018-x.
Maestripieri, D. (2007). Social and biological influences on rhesus monkey development and health across the lifespan: Challenges and rewards of population-based bio-behavioral research with nonhuman primates. In S. Lindau & N. Gavrilova (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2006 Chicago Workshop on Biomarkers in Population-Based Health and Aging Research (pp. 7-24). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Center on Demography and Economics of Aging. primate.uchicago.edu/2006Biomarkers.doc
Maestripieri, D., Lindell, S.G., & Higley, J.D. (2007). Intergenerational transmission of maternal behavior in rhesus monkeys and its underlying mechanisms. Developmental Psychobiology, 49(2), 165-71. doi: 10.1002/dev.20200.
Maestripieri, D., Mayhew, J., Carlson, C.L., Hoffman, C.L., & Radtke, J.M. (2007). One-male harems and female social dynamics in Guinea baboons. Folia Primatologica, 78(1), 56-68. doi: 10.1159/000095686. PubMed PMID: 17170557.
Maestripieri, D. (2007). Macachiavellian Intelligence: How rhesus macaques and humans have conquered the world. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Gerald, M.S., Waitt, C., & Maestripieri, D. (2006). An experimental examination of female responses to infant face coloration in rhesus macaques. Behavioural Processes, 73(3), 253-6. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.06.003. PubMed PMID: 16879930.
Maestripieri, D., McCormack, K., Lindell, S.G., Higley, J.D., & Sanchez, M.M. (2006). Influence of parenting style on the offspring’s behavior and CSF monoamine metabolite levels in crossfostered and noncrossfostered female rhesus macaques. Behavioural Brain Research, 175(1), 90-5. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.08.002. PubMed PMID: 16971003.
Maestripieri, D., Higley, J.D., Lindell, S.G., Newman, T.K., McCormack, K., & Sanchez, M.M. (2006). Early maternal rejection affects the development of monoaminergic systems and adult abusive parenting in rhesus macaques. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120(5), 1017-24. doi: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.5.1017. PubMed PMID: 17014253.
McCormack, K., Sanchez, M.M., Bardi, M., & Maestripieri, D. (2006). Maternal care patterns and behavioral development of rhesus macaque abused infants in the first 6 months of life. Developmental Psychobiology, 48(7), 537-50. doi: 10.1002/dev.20157. PubMed PMID: 17016838.
Roney, J.R., Hanson, K.N., Durante, K.M., & Maestripieri, D. (2006). Reading men’s faces: Women’s mate attractiveness judgments track men’s testosterone and interest in infants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 273(1598), 2169-75. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3569. PubMed PMID: 16901836. PMCID: PMC1635527.
Maestripieri, D., & Roney, J.R. (2006). Evolutionary developmental psychology: Contributions from comparative research with nonhuman primates. Developmental Review, 26(2), 120-37. doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2006.02.006.
Pradhan, G.R., Engelhardt, A., van Schaik, C.P., & Maestripieri, D. (2006). The evolution of female copulation calls in primates: a review and a new model. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 59(3), 333-43. doi: 10.1007/s00265-005-0075-y.
Maestripieri, D. (2005). Improbable antics: Notes from a gorilla guru. In D. Brin (Ed.), King Kong is Back! (pp. 85-91). Dallas, TX: BenBella Books.
Maestripieri, D. (2005). Gestural communication in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina, M. arctoides): Use of signals in relation to dominance and social context. Gesture, 5(1-2), 57-73. doi: 10.1075/gest.5.1.06mae.
Maestripieri, D. (2005). Early experience affects the intergenerational transmission of infant abuse in rhesus monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(27), 9726-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504122102.
Maestripieri, D. (2005). Effects of early experience on female behavioural and reproductive development in rhesus macaques. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 272(1569), 1243-8. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3059. PubMed PMID: 16024388.PMCID: PMC1564110.
Maestripieri, D., Leoni, M., Raza, S.S., Hirsch, E.J., & Whitham, J.C. (2005). Female copulation calls in Guinea baboons: Evidence for post-copulatory female choice? International Journal of Primatology, 26(4), 737-58. doi: 10.1007/s10764-005-5306-6.
Maestripieri, D. (2004). On the importance of comparative research for the understanding of human behavior and development: A reply to Gottlieb & Lickliter (2004). Social Development, 14(1), 181-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2005.00296.x.
Maestripieri, D., Lindell, S.G., Ayala, A., Gold, P.W., & Higley, J.D. (2005). Neurobiological characteristics of rhesus macaque abusive mothers and their relation to social and maternal behavior. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 29(1), 51-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.05.004. PubMed PMID: 15652254.
Maestripieri, D., & Roney, J.R. (2005). Primate copulation calls and post-copulatory female choice. Behavioral Ecology, 16(1), 106-13. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arh120.
Maestripieri, D. (2004). Maternal behavior, infant handling, and socialization. In B. Thierry, M. Singh & W. Kaumanns (Eds.), Macaque Societies: A Model for the Study of Social Organization (pp. 231-4). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Maestripieri, D., & Ross, S.R. (2004). Maternal influences on infant behavioral development in western lowland gorillas. In S.P. Shohov (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research, Vol. 27 (pp. 97-112). Hauppage, NY: Nova Science Publishers. https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2570.
Maestripieri, D., & Durante, K.M. (2004). Infant colic: Re-evaluating the adaptive hypotheses. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27(4), 468-9. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X04320108.
Maestripieri, D., Roney, J.R., DeBias, N., Durante, K.M., & Spaepen, G.M. (2004). Father absence, menarche, and interest in infants among adolescent girls. Developmental Science, 7(5), 560-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00380.x. PubMed PMID: 15603289.
Roney, J.R., & Maestripieri, D. (2004). Relative digit lengths predict men’s behavior and attractiveness during social interactions with women. Human Nature, 15(3), 271-82. doi: 10.1007/s12110-004-1009-5.
Roney, J.R., Whitham, J.C., Leoni, M., Bellem, A., Wielebnowski, N., & Maestripieri, D. Relative digit lengths and testosterone levels in Guinea baboons. Hormones and Behavior, 45(4), 285-90. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2003.12.008. PubMed PMID: 15053945.
Maestripieri, D. (2004). Genetic aspects of mother-offspring conflict in rhesus macaques. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 55(4), 381-7. doi: 10.1007/s00265-003-0720-2.
Maestripieri, D., & Ross, S.R. (2004). Sex differences in play among western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) infants: implications for adult behavior and social structure. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 123(1), 52-61. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.10295.
Parr, L.A., & Maestripieri, D. (2003). Nonvocal communication. In D. Maestripieri (Ed.), Primate Psychology (pp. 324-58). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Roney, J.R., & Maestripieri, D. (2003). Social development and affiliation. In D. Maestripieri (Ed.), Primate Psychology (pp. 171-204). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Maestripieri, D. (2003). Attachment. In D. Maestripieri (Ed.), Primate Psychology (pp. 108-43). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Maestripieri, D. (2003). The past, present, and future of primate psychology. In D. Maestripieri (Ed.), Primate Psychology (pp. 1-16). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018471&content=toc.
Maestripieri, D., & Wallen, K. (2003). Nonhuman primate models of developmental psychopathology: problems and prospects. In D. Cicchetti & E. Walker (Eds.), Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms in Psychopathology (pp. 187-214). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511546365.010.
Roney, J.R., Mahler, S.V., & Maestripieri, D. (2003). Behavioral and hormonal responses of men to brief interactions with women. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24(6), 365-75. doi: 10.1016/S1090-5138(03)00053-9.
Maestripieri, D. (2003). Similarities in affiliation and aggression between cross-fostered rhesus macaque females and their biological mothers. Developmental Psychobiology, 43(4), 321-7. doi: 10.1002/dev.10143. PubMed PMID: 15027415.
Whitham, J.C., & Maestripieri, D. (2003). Primate rituals: The function of greetings between male Guinea baboons. Ethology, 109, 847-59. doi: 10.1046/j.0179-1613.2003.00922.x.
Maestripieri, D. (Ed.). (2003). Primate Psychology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Maestripieri, D. (2002). Biological bases of maternal attachment. In J.T. Cacioppo, G.G. Berntson, R. Adolphs, C.S. Carter, R.J. Davidson, M.K. McClintock, B.S. McEwen, M.J. Meaney, D.L. Schacter, E.M. Sternberg, S.J. Suomi, S.E. Taylor (Eds.), Foundations in Social Neuroscience (pp. 749-53). Boston, MA: MIT Press.
Roney, J.R., & Maestripieri, D. (2002). The importance of comparative and phylogenetic analyses in the study of adaptation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(4), 525. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X02430099.
Maestripieri, D., Ross, S.K., & Megna, N.L. (2002). Mother-infant interactions in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla): spatial relationships, communication, and opportunities for social learning. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 116(3), 219-27. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.116.3.219. PubMed PMID: 12234071.
Maestripieri, D., & Pelka, S. (2002). Sex differences in interest in infants across the lifespan: A biological adaptation for parenting? Human Nature, 13(3), 327-44. doi: 10.1007/s12110-002-1018-1. PubMed PMID: 26192926.
Maestripieri, D. (2002). Maternal dominance rank and age affect offspring sex ratio in pigtail macaques. Journal of Mammalogy, 83(2), 563-8. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1383583.
Graves, F.C., Wallen, K., & Maestripieri, D. (2002). Opioids and attachment in rhesus macaque abusive mothers. Behavioral Neuroscience, 116(3), 489-93. doi: 10.1037/0735-7044.116.3.489. PubMed PMID: 12049330.
Maestripieri, D. (2002). Parent-offspring conflict in primates. International Journal of Primatology, 23(4), 923-51. doi: 10.1023/A:1015537201184.
Maestripieri, D., & Kappeler, P.M. (2002). Evolutionary theory and primate behavior. International Journal of Primatology, 23(4), 703-5. doi: 10.1023/A:1015548013479.
Maestripieri, D., & Whitham, J. (2001). Teaching in marine mammals? Anecdotes vs science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(2), 342-3. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X0142396X.
Maestripieri, D. (2001). Biological bases of maternal attachment. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10(3), 79-83. doi: 10.1111/1467-8721.00120.
Maestripieri, D. (2001). Intraspecific variability in parenting styles of rhesus macaques: the role of the social environment. Ethology, 107(3), 237-48. doi: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2001.00661.x.
Maestripieri, D. (2001). Female-biased maternal investment in rhesus macaques. Folia Primatologica, 72(1), 44-7. doi: 10.1159/000049920. PubMed PMID: 11275750.
Maestripieri, D. (2001). Is there mother-infant bonding in primates? Developmental Review, 21, 93-120. doi: 10.1006/drev.2000.0522.
Maestripieri, D. (2000). Biography. American Psychologist, 55(11): 1274-6. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.55.11.1274.
Maestripieri, D., & Megna, N.L. (2000). Hormones and behavior in abusive and nonabusive rhesus macaque mothers. 2: Mother-infant interactions. Physiology & Behavior, 71(1-2), 43-9. doi: 10.1016/S0031-9384(00)00338-3. PubMed PMID: 11134684.
Maestripieri, D., & Megna, N.L. (2000). Hormones and behavior in abusive and nonabusive rhesus macaque mothers. 1: Social interactions during late pregnancy and early lactation. Physiology & Behavior, 71(1-2), 35-42. doi: 10.1016/S0031-9384(00)00337-1. PubMed PMID: 11134683.
Jovanovic, T., Megna, N.L., & Maestripieri, D. (2000). Early maternal recognition of offspring vocalizations in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Primates, 41(4), 421-8. doi: 10.1007/BF02557653.
Maestripieri, D. (2000). Measuring temperament in rhesus macaques: consistency and change in emotionality over time. Behavioural Processes, 49(3), 167-71. doi: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00083-8. PubMed PMID: 10922530.
Cabib, S., D’Amato, F.R., Puglisi-Allegra, S., & Maestripieri, D. (2000). Behavioral and mesocorticolimbic dopamine responses to non aggressive social interactions depend on previous social experiences and on the opponent’s sex. Behavioural Brain Research, 112(1-2), 13-22. doi: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00157-1. PubMed PMID: 10862931.
Maestripieri, D., Jovanovic, T., & Gouzoules, H. (2000). Crying and infant abuse in rhesus monkeys. Child Development, 71(2), 301-9. doi: 10.1111/1467-8624.00145. PubMed PMID: 10834465.
Maestripieri, D. (2000). Determinants of affiliative interactions between adult males and lactating females in pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina nemestrina). Ethology, 106(5), 425-39.
Maestripieri, D., Megna, N.L., & Jovanovic, T. (2000). Adoption and maltreatment of foster infants by rhesus macaque abusive mothers. Developmental Science, 3(3), 287-93. doi: 10.1111/1467-7687.00122.
Maestripieri, D., & Carroll, K.A. (2000). Causes and consequences of infant abuse and neglect in monkeys. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 5(3), 245-54. doi: 10.1016/S1359-1789(98)00019-6.
Publications in the 1990s
Maestripieri, D. (1999). Primate social organization, gestural repertoire size, and communication dynamics: a comparative study of macaques. In B.J. King (Ed.), The Origins of Language: What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell Us (pp. 55-77). Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research.
Maestripieri, D. (1999). Changes in social behavior and its hormonal correlates across pregnancy in pig-tailed macaques. International Journal of Primatology, 20(5), 707-18. doi: 10.1023/A:1020752702529.
Maestripieri, D. (1999). Fatal attraction: interest in infants and infant abuse in rhesus macaques. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 110(1), 17-25. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199909)110:1<17::AID-AJPA2>3.0.CO;2-M. PubMed PMID: 10490465.
Maestripieri, D., & Carroll, K.A. (1999). Costs and benefits of female aggressiveness in humans and other mammals. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(2), 231-2. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X99421818.
Maestripieri, D. (1999). Formal dominance: The emperor’s new clothes? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113(1), 96-8. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.113.1.96. PubMed PMID: 10098272.
Maestripieri, D., Tomaszycki, M., & Carroll, K.A. (1999). Consistency and change in the behavior of rhesus macaque abusive mothers with successive infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 34(1), 29-35. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199901)34:1<29::AID-DEV5>3.0.CO;2-U.
Maestripieri, D. (1999). The biology of human parenting: Insights from nonhuman primates. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 23(3), 411-22. doi: 10.1016/S0149-7634(98)00042-6. PubMed PMID: 9989428.
Maestripieri, D. (1998). Osservazione, registrazione e definizione delle relazioni madre-figlio nei primati non umani. In A. Tartabini (Ed.), Tecniche di Osservazione del Comportamento Infantile (pp. 37-51). Milano: McGraw-Hill.
Maestripieri, D. (1998). Science, philosophy, and the study of animal minds. Evolution of Communication, 2(2), 279-91. doi: 10.1075/eoc.2.2.08mae.
Maestripieri, D., & Zehr, J.L. (1998). Maternal responsiveness increases during pregnancy and after estrogen treatment in macaques. Hormones and Behavior, 34(3), 223-30. doi: 10.1006/hbeh.1998.1470. PubMed PMID: 9878271.
Maestripieri, D. (1998). The evolution of male-infant interactions in the tribe Papionini (Primates: Cercopithecidae). Folia Primatologica, 69(5), 247-51, 1998. doi: 10.1159/000021633. PubMed PMID: 9751826.
Maestripieri, D., & Carroll, K.A. (1998). Behavioral and environmental correlates of infant abuse in group-living pigtail macaques. Infant Behavior & Development, 21(4), 603-12. doi: 10.1016/S0163-6383(98)90032-7.
Zehr, J.L., Maestripieri, D., & Wallen, K. (1998). Estradiol increases female sexual initiation independent of male responsiveness in rhesus monkeys. Hormones and Behavior, 33(2), 95-103. doi:10.1006/hbeh.1998.1440.
Maestripieri, D. (1998). Social and demographic influences on mothering style in pigtail macaques. Ethology, 104, 379-85. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1998.tb00076.x.
Carroll, K.A., & Maestripieri, D. (1998). Infant maltreatment in monkeys: A discussion of definitions, epidemiology, etiology, and implications for child maltreatment. Psychological Bulletin, 123(3), 234-7. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.123.3.234. PubMed PMID: 9602558.
Maestripieri, D., & Carroll, K.A. (1998). Child abuse and neglect: Usefulness of the animal data. Psychological Bulletin, 123(3), 211-23. doi: 10.1037//0033-2909.123.3.211. PubMed PMID: 9602555.
Tomaszycki, M., Cline, C., Griffin, B., Maestripieri, D., & Hopkins, W.D. (1998). Maternal cradling and infant nipple preferences in rhesus macaques. Developmental Psychobiology, 32(4), 305-12. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199805)32:4<305::AID-DEV5>3.0.CO;2-R. PubMed PMID: 9589219.
Maestripieri, D., & Carroll, K.A. (1998). Risk factors for infant abuse and neglect in rhesus monkeys. Psychological Science, 9(2), 143-5. doi: 10.1111/1467-9280.00027.
Maestripieri, D. (1998). Parenting styles of abusive mothers in group-living rhesus macaques. Animal Behaviour, 55(1), 1-11. doi: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0578. PubMed PMID: 9480666.
Maestripieri, D. (1997). Gestural communication in macaques: Usage and meaning of nonvocal signals. Evolution of Communication, 1(2), 193-22. doi: 10.1075/eoc.1.2.03mae.
Maestripieri, D., & Morford, J. (Eds.). (1997). Gestural communication in human and nonhuman primates. Special issue of Evolution of Communication, 1(2), 159-282.
Maestripieri, D. (1997). The evolution of communication. Language & Communication, 17(3): 269-77. doi: 10.1016/S0271-5309(97)00009-8.
Maestripieri, D., Wallen, K., & Carroll, K.A. (1997). Genealogical and demographic influences on infant abuse and neglect in group-living sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys). Developmental Psychobiology, 31(3), 175-80. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199711)31:3<175::AID-DEV2>3.0.CO;2-P.
Maestripieri, D., Wallen, K., & Carroll, K.A. (1997). Infant abuse runs in families of group-living pigtail macaques. Child Abuse & Neglect, 21(5), 465-471. doi: 10.1016/S0145-2134(97)00006-9. PubMed PMID: 9158906.
Maestripieri, D., & Wallen, K. (1997). Affiliative and submissive communication in rhesus macaques. Primates, 38(2), 127-38. doi: 10.1007/BF02382003.
Maestripieri, D., & Call, J. (1996). Mother-infant communication in primates. Advances in the Study of Behavior, 25, 613- 42. doi: 10.1016/S0065-3454(08)60344-7.
Maestripieri, D. (1996). Social communication among captive stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides). International Journal of Primatology, 17(5), 785-802. doi: 10.1007/BF02735264.
Maestripieri, D. (1996). Primate cognition and the bared-teeth display: a reevaluation of the concept of formal dominance. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 110(4), 402-5. doi: 10.1037//0735-7036.110.4.402. PubMed PMID: 8956510.
Maestripieri, D. (1996). Gestural communication and its cognitive implications in pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina). Behaviour, 133(13), 997-1022. doi: 10.1163/156853996X00576.
Maestripieri, D. (1996). Maternal encouragement of infant locomotion in pigtail macaques, Macaca nemestrina. Animal Behaviour, 51(3), 603-10. doi: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0064.
Maestripieri, D. (1995). Maternal responsiveness to infant distress calls in stumptail macaques. Folia Primatologica, 64(4), 201-6. doi: 10.1159/000156854. PubMed PMID: 8613127.
Maestripieri, D. (1995). Assessment of danger to themselves and their infants by rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) mothers. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 109(4), 416-20. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.109.4.416. PubMed PMID: 7497698.
Maestripieri, D. (1995). Maternal encouragement in nonhuman primates and the question of animal teaching. Human Nature, 6(4), 361-78. doi: 10.1007/BF02734206. PubMed PMID: 24203124.
Wallen, K., Maestripieri, D., Mann, D.R. (1995). Effects of neonatal testicular suppression with a GnRH antagonist on social behavior in group-living juvenile rhesus monkeys. Hormones and Behavior, 29(3), 322-37. doi: 10.1006/hbeh.1995.1023. PubMed PMID: 7490008.
Maestripieri, D. (1995). First steps in the macaque world: Do rhesus mothers encourage their infants’ independent locomotion? Animal Behaviour, 49(6), 1541-9. doi: 10.1016/0003-3472(95)90075-6.
Maestripieri, D., & Wallen, K. (1995). Interest in infants varies with reproductive condition in group-living female pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina). Physiology & Behavior, 57(2), 353-8. doi: 10.1016/0031-9384(94)00222-Q. PubMed PMID: 7716215.
Maestripieri, D. (1994). Influence of infants on female social relationships in monkeys. Folia Primatologica, 63(4), 192-202. doi: 10.1159/000156819. PubMed PMID: 7797165.
Maestripieri, D. (1994). Mother-infant relationships in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina, M. arctoides). II. The social environment. Behaviour, 131(1), 97-113. doi: 10.1163/156853994X00235.
Maestripieri, D. (1994). Mother-infant relationships in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina, M. arctoides). I. Development of the mother-infant relationship in the first three months. Behaviour, 131(1), 75-96. doi: 10.1163/156853994X00226.
Maestripieri, D. (1994). Costs and benefits of maternal aggression in lactating female rhesus macaques. Primates, 35(4), 443-53. doi: 10.1007/BF02381953.
Maestripieri, D. (1994). Social structure, infant handling, and mothering styles in group-living Old World monkeys. International Journal of Primatology, 15(4), 531-53. doi: 10.1007/BF02735970.
Maestripieri, D. (1994). Infant abuse associated with psychosocial stress in a group-living pigtail macaque (Macaca nemestrina) mother. American Journal of Primatology, 32(1), 41-9. doi: 10.1002/ajp.1350320105.
Maestripieri, D. (1993). Maternal anxiety in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). II. Emotional bases of individual differences in mothering style. Ethology, 95(1), 32-42. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1993.tb00454.x.
Maestripieri, D. (1993). Maternal anxiety in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). I. Measurement of anxiety and identification of anxiety-eliciting situations. Ethology, 95(1), 19-31. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1993.tb00453.x.
Maestripieri, D. (1993). Infant kidnapping in group-living rhesus macaques: Why don’t mothers rescue their infants? Primates, 34(2), 211-6. doi: 10.1007/BF02381392.
Maestripieri, D. (1993). Vigilance costs of allogrooming in macaque mothers. The American Naturalist, 141(5), 744-53. doi: 10.1086/285503. PubMed PMID: 19426008.
Maestripieri, D., Schino, G., Aureli, F., & Troisi, A. (1992). A modest proposal: Displacement activities as an indicator of emotions in primates. Animal Behaviour, 44(5), 967-79. doi: 10.1016/S0003-3472(05)80592-5.
Maestripieri, D. (1992). Functional aspects of maternal aggression in mammals. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 70(6), 1069-77. doi: 10.1139/z92-150.
Maestripieri, D., Martel, F.L., Nevison, C.M., Simpson, M.J., & Keverne, E.B. (1992). Anxiety in rhesus monkey infants in relation to interactions with their mother and other social companions. Developmental Psychobiology, 24(8), 571-81. doi: 10.1002/dev.420240805. PubMed PMID: 1773915.
Bigi, S., Maestripieri, D., Aloe, L., & Alleva, E. (1992). NGF decreases isolation-induced aggressive behavior, while increasing adrenal volume, in adult male mice. Physiology & Behavior, 51(2), 337-43, 1992. doi: 10.1016/0031-9384(92)90150-Z. PubMed PMID: 1557444.
Maestripieri, D., Badiani, A., & Puglisi-Allegra, S. (1991). Prepartal chronic stress increases anxiety and decreases aggression in lactating female mice. Behavioral Neuroscience, 105(5), 663-8. doi: 10.1037/0735-7044.105.5.663. PubMed PMID: 1815617.
Maestripieri, D., & Alleva, E. (1991). Litter defence and parental investment allocation in house mice. Behavioural Processes, 23(3), 223-30. doi: 10.1016/0376-6357(91)90052-2. PubMed PMID: 24923517.
Pavani, S., Maestripieri, D., Schino, G., Turillazzi, P.G., & Scucchi, S. (1991). Factors influencing scratching behaviour in long-tailed macaques. Folia Primatologica, 57(1), 34-8. doi: 10.1159/000156561.
Maestripieri, D., & D’Amato, F.R. (1991). Anxiety and maternal aggression in house mice (Mus domesticus): a look at interindividual variability. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 105(3), 295-301. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.105.3.295.
Maestripieri, D., & Rossi-Arnaud, C. (1991). Kinship does not affect litter defence in pairs of communally nesting female house mice. Aggressive Behavior, 17(4), 223-8. doi: 10.1002/1098-2337(1991)17:4<223::AID-AB2480170405>3.0.CO;2-6.
Maestripieri, D., & Alleva, E. (1991). Do male mice use parental care as a buffering strategy against maternal aggression? Animal Behaviour, 41(5), 904-6. doi: 10.1016/S0003-3472(05)80360-4.
Maestripieri, D. (1991). Litter gender composition, food availability, and maternal defence of the young in house mice (Mus domesticus). Behaviour, 116(3-4), 139-51. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4534920.
Scucchi, S., Maestripieri, D., & Schino, G. (1991). Conflict, displacement activities, and menstrual cycle in long-tailed macaques. Primates, 32(1), 115-8. doi: 10.1007/BF02381606.
Schino, G., Maestripieri, D., Scucchi, S., & Turillazzi, P.G. (1990). Social tension in familiar and unfamiliar pairs of long-tailed macaques. Behaviour, 113(3-4), 264-72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4534859.
Maestripieri, D., De Simone, R., Aloe, L., & Alleva, E. (1990). Social status and nerve growth factor serum levels after agonistic encounters in mice. Physiology & Behavior, 47(1), 161-4. doi: 10.1016/0031-9384(90)90056-A. PubMed PMID: 2326332.
Maestripieri, D., & Alleva, E. (1990). Maternal aggression and litter size in the female house mouse. Ethology, 84(1), 27-34. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1990.tb00782.x.
Publications in the 1980s
Maestripieri, D., & Scucchi, S. (1989). Seasonal changes in social relationships in an all-female rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) group. Behaviour, 110(1-4), 106-14. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4534787.
Schino, G., Scucchi, S., Maestripieri, D., & Turillazzi, P.G. (1988). Allogrooming as a tension-reduction mechanism: A behavioral approach. American Journal of Primatology, 16(1), 43-50. doi: 10.1002/ajp.1350160106.